WEBVTT GETTINGTOGETHER TO RIP OFF THE CITY FOROVERTIME.MORRIS WAR AND EVODI HENDRIXPLEADED GUILTY IN FEDERA COURTIN PROCEEDINGS HALF AN HOURAPART.EACH WAS A MEMBER OF THE GUNTRACING TASK FORCE.OUTSIDE A LAWYER FOR HENDRIXSAID HIS CLIENT REGRETS HISCONDUCT.>> OF COURSE HE IS.HE IS SORRY.JAYNE: ADMIT THEY ROCKED PEOPLEDURING SEARCH WARRANT ANDTRAFFIC STOPS AND FALSIFIEDDOCUMENTS TO COVER THE CRIMES.ONE PLEA AGREEMENT REVEALS NEWDETAILS ABOUT THE OVERTIME FRONTAND HOW IT WAS DONE.THE PRACTICE AT THE TASK FORCE,THE AGREEMENT SAID THAT IF ASUBSET HAD A GUN ARREST, ALLMEMBERS OF THE TASK FORCEREGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEYPARTICIPATED IN THE ARREST WOULDSUBMIT INDIVIDUAL OVERTIMEREPORTS, AS IF THEY DID.ON SOME OCCASIONS, THIS OCCURRWHEN DETECTIVE WARD AND HISCO-DEFENDANTS WERE NOT WORKINGAT ALL ON THE DAY OF THE ARREST.THE GUILTY PLEAS AVOID TRIAL,AND LEAVE UNSWERED TO DATE, HOWSO MUCH OVERTIME FRAUD GOTAPPROVED IN THE POLICEDEPARTMENT.OTHER CASES AGAUNST MEMBERS OFTHE GUN UNIT ARE PENDINGIS HE GOING TO COOPERATE AGAINSTOTER DEFENDANT>> I CANNOT TALK ABOUT THATRIGHT NOW.JAYN THEY FACE UP T SEVEN TONINE YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON.THEY WILL BE SENTENCED INFEBRUARY.

Two former Baltimore police detectives pleaded guilty Friday in a federal racketeering case.Evodio Hendrix, 32, of Randallstown, and Detective Maurice Ward, 36, of Middle River, appeared before a judge separately Friday afternoon. They are two of seven members of a now-disbanded gun task force accused of robbing people and falsifying overtime, among other charges.Outside court, Hendrix's defense attorney, Harvey Bruner, said that his client regrets his conduct."Of course he is, he's sorry," Bruner said.The two former detectives admit they robbed people during search warrants and traffic stops. They admit overtime fraud and falsifying documents to cover their crimes.Each nearly doubled their salaries in overtime, much of it for time when they weren't working. One plea agreement reveals new details about the overtime fraud and how it was done, saying: "The practice at the (Gun Trace Task Force) was that if a subset of the GTTF had a gun arrest, all members of the GTTF, regardless of whether they had actually participated in the arrest, would submit individual overtime reports as if they did. On some occasions, this occurred when Detective Ward and his co-defendants were not working at all on the day of the arrest."They also lied about regular pay.In August 2016, they went on vacation to the Dominican Republic, but they failed to request time off for the trip and were paid for regular assignments during the week, despite being out of the country.The guilty pleas avoid trial and any further revelations about the criminal conduct of the two.Unanswered to date is how so much overtime fraud got approved in the Police Department. Other cases against members in the gun unit are pending.Asked whether Hendrix will cooperate against other defendants, Bruner said, "I can't talk about that right now."Hendrix resigned from the force last month and Ward resigned in April.The sentencing guidelines call for seven to nine years in prison. Sentencing for each will be in February. They remain in custody.

BALTIMORE —

Two former Baltimore police detectives pleaded guilty Friday in a federal racketeering case.

The two former detectives admit they robbed people during search warrants and traffic stops. They admit overtime fraud and falsifying documents to cover their crimes.

Each nearly doubled their salaries in overtime, much of it for time when they weren't working.

One plea agreement reveals new details about the overtime fraud and how it was done, saying: "The practice at the (Gun Trace Task Force) was that if a subset of the GTTF had a gun arrest, all members of the GTTF, regardless of whether they had actually participated in the arrest, would submit individual overtime reports as if they did. On some occasions, this occurred when Detective Ward and his co-defendants were not working at all on the day of the arrest."

They also lied about regular pay.

In August 2016, they went on vacation to the Dominican Republic, but they failed to request time off for the trip and were paid for regular assignments during the week, despite being out of the country.

The guilty pleas avoid trial and any further revelations about the criminal conduct of the two.

Unanswered to date is how so much overtime fraud got approved in the Police Department. Other cases against members in the gun unit are pending.

Asked whether Hendrix will cooperate against other defendants, Bruner said, "I can't talk about that right now."

Hendrix resigned from the force last month and Ward resigned in April.

The sentencing guidelines call for seven to nine years in prison. Sentencing for each will be in February. They remain in custody.